Puppy Portable Studio is a specialized variant of Puppy for running (Windows) digital audio workstation / music production software.

- A woof-based Puppy with a cutting-edge kernel and all the optimizations of Turbopup Xtreme
- Comes with all the features and support needed for running pro audio software
- Optimized for low audio latency and maximum performance with digital audio workstation software

Puppy Studio is NOT another 'multimedia' (jack-of-all-trades) distro like Musix, Ubuntu Studio, GrafPup or Pupitup.
It doesn't have graphics,video and office apps,email clients,widgets,etc.

Puppy Studio is powered by:

First screenshots of the pre-pre-alpha build:

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I don't remember telling you that I am working on creating a full multi-media package of Puppy with another individual who is more savvy at setting Puppy up than I am. So perhaps there may be a "Puppy Studio".

I may end up with a multi-media Puppy Linux. To be honest with you, I think THAT would fly with the laptop people. Because they can have a Windows machine and then plug in a USB memory stick with Puppy on it and then have a full studio suite at their fingertips

I don't remember telling you that I am working on creating a full multi-media package of Puppy with another individual who is more savvy at setting Puppy up than I am. So perhaps there may be a "Puppy Studio".

I may end up with a multi-media Puppy Linux. To be honest with you, I think THAT would fly with the laptop people. Because they can have a Windows machine and then plug in a USB memory stick with Puppy on it and then have a full studio suite at their fingertips

Never seen that one before, but I know jcagle at one time planned to do something like this, called PupBeatz ... but later on he cancelled that project due to lack of time ...

Lob,
Sorry to shatter your dreams ... it's JACK Time Machine, to record ambient JACK sound output ... real men use Ardour, for me, Time Machine will do :p

Also, an SFS will not do because to be a real audio machine, the kernel must be a special kernel:
- it should be real-time (RT Kernel)
- it should be low-latency (the clock ticks must be set to 1000 or more)

Otherwise JACK will stutter, no matter how powerful machine you have. (I tried to use JACK on a non-RT kernel, pushed its priority to nice -20 to avoid xruns, and it froze my laptop )

A new kernel means a new puplet, rather than SFS because SFS can't be used to hold a new kernel.

About Grafpup ... we haven't heard from Nathan F for a while, I hope he's doing fine wherever he is ..._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread.

GrafPup is a Puppy derivative that's very similar to other general-purpose 'multimedia' distros (i.e. Musix and Ubuntu Studio).
It tries to do everything: from graphics (2D and 3D),web design,video and audio,to office apps and publishing.

RT mode in JACK is useless without a Realtime kernel. It's extremely unstable. You're forced to use the non-RT mode which can give you 4~5ms latency in the best case with a monster PC

Windows XP performs much better than Puppy with a standard kernel. You can get latencies down to 1~2ms with ASIO output and an optimized XP.

With a RT kernel,you can finally use the RT mode without fear that your app will disconnect or crash.The results are amazing:
Much better than XP Last edited by synth on Wed 25 Mar 2009, 21:28; edited 4 times in total

When the RT mode is enabled, JACK won't stutter, but the apps connected to it will disconnect or crash

If you use WINE apps with JACK with a standard kernel,you must disable the RT mode in QJackCtl. That sucks

Without RT,you won't be able to go below 5ms latency no matter what kind of hardware you have.

That sucks! I thought jack2 aka jackdmp is meant to fix all that not sure of the status of rt-kernel, I know ubuntustudio 8.10 (uses standard 2.6.27) doesn't use rt-kernel because it wasn't stable (=and therefore I stick with 8.04 instead with 2.6.24-rt)._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
Contributed Fatdog64 packages thread.

WINE is the root of the problem,not JACK.It's a huge resource hog.The graphics /menus/GUI redraws are the main source of instability.Extremely unoptimized and buggy.

Moving,resizing,opening,minimizing windows and doing anything that makes use of the GUI eats up massive amounts of CPU cycles,not giving enough time for JACK to do its job.

But I found a nice workaround - setting the timeout in JACK from 500ms to 8000ms solves the problem
Now you can use the RT mode but you'll get Xruns from time to time because of the lousy 2D performance of WINE.Last edited by synth on Thu 26 Mar 2009, 13:17; edited 2 times in total

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